Citizens should send questions to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, asking which agency will issue a Land Use Rights Certificate after the land user fulfills financial obligations in case of changing land use purposes and must ask for permission.
Responding to this content, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment said: Pursuant to the provisions of Point e, Clause 1, Article 133, Clause 2, Article 136 of the Land Law, the change of land use purpose prescribed in Clause 1, Article 121 of the Law is subject to land change registration; the authority to issue the Certificate is under the Land Registration Office or the Branch of the Land Registration Office.
Decree No. 151/2025/ND-CP dated June 12, 2025 stipulates the order and procedures for allowing land use purpose conversion: When completing the conversion of land use purpose, the specialized agency for agriculture and environment shall sign or submit to the competent authority to sign and issue a Certificate.
Pursuant to the above regulations, in case of changing the land use purpose as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 121 of the Land Law, the competent authority to sign the Certificate shall be the Land Registration Office or the Branch of the Land Registration Office.
Clause 1, Article 121 of the Land Law stipulates that cases of land use purpose conversion must be permitted by competent state agencies, including:
a) Conversion of rice-growing land, special-use forest land, protective forest land, and production forest land to other types of land in the agricultural land group;
b) Conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural land;
c) Conversion of other types of land to concentrated livestock land when implementing large-scale concentrated livestock projects;
d) Conversion of non-agricultural land allocated by the State without land use fees to other types of non-agricultural land allocated by the State with land use fees or land lease;
d) Conversion of non-agricultural land other than residential land to residential land;
e) Conversion of land for construction of public works, land used for public purposes with business purposes to non-agricultural production and business land;
g) Conversion of non-agricultural production and business land that is not commercial or service land to commercial or service land.
